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Chicago examiner Chicago november 23 1915 vol xiii xo 288 a m tuesday kegi stored u b patent office p.d o'brien suspended slush fund is charged detective chief accused of col lecting money to defend hal pin and walter o'brien po licemen said to have testified hoyne's evidence results in civil service commission taking drastic action healey forced to give order after long delay c aix p d o'brien chief live was suspended night by chief of police tlie request of the civil l ommission following the iÂ»j;ird investigation into the ion of a slusu fund for the men indicted in counec â€¢ graft inquiry us announced that charges will be filed against captain o'brien becsjdse of his activities in the col lecflon of this fund among members ofahe police department these accusations wil be based upon the my of scores of policemen â€¢Â» ho appeared before the commission iarlier m tfie'oay'anirf'jid of their contributions to the fund raised to help former captain john j halpin of the detective bureau now on trial charged with grafting and detective sergeant walter o'brien already eonvicted for operating with the clairvoyant trust uncle of walter o'brien convicted as grafter captain o'brien is an uncle of the convicted policeman and has admit ted that he contributed several hun dred dollars toward his nephew's iufense but denied that he had been jasurer of the fund captain o'brien's suspension was onsidered a big victory for state's attorney maclay hoyne who had gathered a mass of evidence con erning the fund heretofore he had been unsuccessful in his de mands upon chief healey that the lead of the detective bureau be ousted the prosecutor was prepar ing to present this evidence to the grand jury when joseph p geary of the merit board requested that the jata be turned over to him the com missioner assuring mr hoyne that irastic action would follow board is unanimous in suspension order during the morning commissioner eary conferred with state's attor ney hoyne as to the manner in which the investigation would be ield mr hoyne suggested that the commission hold executive sessions for the time being and this was agreed to by other members of the merit board after the first execu tive session the commissioners were unanimous in asking for the sus pension of captain o'brien after the meeting captain percy b coffin president of the commis sion made public the following statement as a result of the investigation conducted to-day in the matter of the collection of funds for the de fense of captain john j halpin and detective sergeant walter j o'brien ihe fact that such collections were made in the department was con clusively shown healey is requested to order suspension the commission therefore has requested of general superintendent of police charles c healey the sus pension of captaih p d o'brien alio participated therein pending eaarges captain o'brien v as placed in â€¢ oarge of the detective bureau short ly after chief healey was appointed head of the department captain o'br/ien admitted last night -â€” / unlighted cigar fails as a sleep conserver mack late for court joker removes lighted torch that usually awakens law yer at loop l station louis mack of the law firm of scott bancroft & stephens is a gen ius â€” and that is why he missed e.n appointment in court yesterday mr mack's latest invention is a sleep cor server he works so late at night and rises eo early in the morning that he needs a sleep con server his scheme is to take a nap on the l train on the way down town and in order to wake u.i at the right moment he lights a cigar which is timed to burn his fingers between Chicago avenue and ran dolph street at the touch of fire he rises and leaves the train but â€” a joke was plaj-ed on mr mack yesterday while he slept a friend gently relieved him of his cigar sub stituting an unlighted one he woke up at fifty-fifth street italian millionaire blocks deportation bv international news service washington nov 22 â€” professor elia volpi of italy a millionaire and friend of the late j p morgan will not be deported with ills secretary miss lisetta morosino as ordered by thj immigration board the depart ment of labor to-day sustained an apueu.l by professor volpi ti'.e board had ordered the couple excluded be cause miss morosino failed to show she was capable of performing the duties of a secretary hawaii's queen sends gift to mrs gait honqltjluj nov 22 â€” ex-queen llliuokalani the surviving 7nler of hawaii's days of royalty has for warded as her wedding gift to mrs norman gait the fiancee of president ... a ohlffon scarf of peculiar tÂ»xture and design the scarf which was sent in the name of the daugh ters of hawaii is a rare example of ancient hawaiian weaving grace wilbur trout suffrage candidate new york nov 22 â€” a fight be tween the east and west for presi dency of the national woman's suf frage association was predicted to day following the resignation of dr anna howard shaw mrs grace wil bur trout of Chicago and mrs carrie chapman catt of new york may be candidates for the office lind faces suit by henry lane wilson in international news service washington nov 22 â€” henry lane wilson former ambassador to mexico said to-night before leaving for indianapolis that he would take legal action against john lind if the latter confirmed his statements that wilson had foreknowledge of the plan to assassinate madero needle causes death of girl student bi international news service lafayette ind nov 22 â€” phy sicians to-day reached the opinion that miss bernaldine jlennetta sur face a purdue student who died a few days ago was a victim of septicaemia while working in the laboratory at purdue she opened a pimple on her face with a needle which she had been using in her work with plants claque for opera stirs sang bis mine melba exposes promoter of hired applause other stars admit they were approached management admits complaints singers indignantly deny that they engaged men to applaud claque â€¢ noun >â€” a body of men hired as applanders in a theater hence any set of persons concerting to praise or npplnnd from interested motives â€” definition from the new standard dictionary this ls the thing or system which has invaded the precincts of the chi cago grand opera company under the leadership of a chef de claque several singers have already teen victimized since the opening of the opera season who is fathering or mothering this claque has remained a mystery all preliminaries are conducted over the telephone until some one is found willing to pay a fee said to range from 50 to 150 when more definite negotiations take place melba exposes scheme but when the claque leader at tempted to negotiate with mme nellie melba he reckoned without his host his methods were exposed by the australian diva yesterday t had no idea that such a system was in existence in Chicago she said until some man called me up on the evening of my first performance and offered me his services for a con sideration ...... 1 toid him to go about his business and hung up the receiver he did not tell me his name and i have not bothered myself about him since bassi also approached i have been approached several times said amadeo bassi the italian tenor the man never tells his name but says that if his services are wanted he will arrange an ap pointment i have heard that his name is arlock and that he lives at the auditorium hotel i have refused to employ liim but i am afraid other singers have not done the same gossip among mem bers of the company has it that one singer paid the chef de claque 75 and provided him with 200 gallery tickets if there is any one employ ing such methods he ought to be driven from Chicago arlock is indignant nathan arlock of paris was found at the auditorium hotel when told that bassi had connected his name with the claque he made an indig nant denial i have never engaged in that busi ness in my life he said management is informed murmurings of discontent among the opera stars became so loud yes terday that they reached the ears of maestro cleofonte campanini and business manager bernhard ulrich i heard last saturday that a claque leader was working in chi cago manager ulrich said it is the first time in the history of opera in Chicago that such a complaint has been made during the matinee saturday i received a protest from the occupants of a box against the unreasonable applause in a certain part of the house every time i at tempted to make an investigation it ceased campanini denied the existence of a professional claque leader for twenty years i have heard the same stories but they can never be proven said mr campanini tuesday woman eight months proving she swallowed a dinner knife x-ray shows instrument in stomach after doctors doubted her story eight months ago mrs e hochs berger of 1703 north artesian ave nue swallowed an 8-inch dinner knife while delirious from typhoid fever in the county hospital after she had returned to her home cured she remembered the knife swallowing episode and went to sev eral doctors and asked for an opera tion to remove it the doctors scoffed at her story and attributed the lump she had on her side to neu rosis yesterday she found dr george c amerson and dr john pflock at the west side hospital she told them of the knife they took an x-ray picture the pictures revealed the knife securely lodged in the fleshy lining of the stomach this morning at 10 o'clock they will operate to remove it the caÃŸe is unusual if not unpre cedented said dr amerson last night but the operation to remove the knife is not necessarily danger ous _, klein took step to become u s citizen bv international news service bridgeport conn nov 22 â€” klein the playwright who lost his life on the lusitania took out his first naturalization papers in iso9 in this city but never returned for his second ones it was learned to-day naturalization clerk m j flanagan in response to an inquiry by persons interested in the playwright's estate made the investigation klein left some property in new london j widener 50 000.000 and art works to son by international news service morristown pa nov 22 the will of p a b wldener admitted to probate to-day gives the surviv ing son joseph s widener author ity to dispose of the paintings and art works the residuary estate is left to mrs widener's son and his grandchildren it is said to be valued at more than fifty million dollars blanche walsh left only 1,000 estate by international news service riverhead n t nov 22 â€” the estate left by blanche walsh the actress is valued at only 1,000 ac cording to papers filed in the surro gate's court in suffolk county her husband william m travers has been granted letters of administra tion saloons soft drink plea to be up today judge carpenter in the federal court to-day will hear arguments in support of a plea for an injunction to restrain mayor thompson and other municipal authorities from in terfering with the sale of soft drinks and tobacco by saloonkeepers on sun days guard washington's station from bombs by international news service washington nov 22 â€” fearing bomb outrages the capital's magni ficent union station to-day put its entire force on guard in its tunnel connecting the station with south washington the weather at the fair by international news servtcb san francisco nov 22 the weather in san francisco to-day was cloudy and wanner maximum tem perature 66 minimum 52 u s weather forecast for Chicago and vicinity partly cloudy tuesday i wednesday fair becoming unsettled again at night with rising temperature t mod erate variable winds temperature kor twenty-four hours ending at 7 p in : hln-heat 33 lowest 23 mean 29 normal temperature for the day 37 excess of temperature since january 1 529 degrees precipitatioc for twenty-four hours ending at 7 p m o excess oi precipitation since january 1 b*7 in relative humidity 7 a m 72 2 p m 57 7 p in 75 barometric pressure reduced to eea terel 7 a m 30.16 7 p ra 30.01 btmrise trmiay 6:30 sunset to-night 4:23 hvou rises o ti p rn november 23 lviii complete master tutltia as dm it u s money kigs plan conquest of trade by b c forbes gigantic new combination is formed by new york finan ciers to capture world com merce once held by europeans frank vanderlip otto kahn mor gan and rockefellers inter ested financially in venture first capital is 50,000,000 new york nov 2 â€” national city bank kuhn-loeb morgan and rockefeller interests have formed the american international company to finance and control enterprises in all parts of the world the capitalization is expected to be 50,000,00 at the start it will be in creased latfer as demanded by the ac quisition of properties charles a stone of stone & web ster managers of upwards of a score or more of traction and other pub lic utility companies has been chosen to manage the mammoth new bank ing venture frank a vanderlip p:-sk",ert of the katior.al city bank is the oihjrinator of the project its scope is wider than that of any investment organization in the world the nearest approach to the american international corporation is the deutsches bank of berlin which fi nances many industrial ventures to cultivate latin-america the semi-bankruptcy of europe has brought a collapse in the securities of even high grade dividend paying properties in south america and else where hence the american finan cial combination will be able to se cure control of many foreign cor porations on bargain termÃŸ latin-american will be the first field to be cultivated but russia the orient and other quarters of the globe will be tapped in due course canadian enterprises also may be brought in the financiers behind the enter prise propose not only to acquire se curities of existing companies but to establish public utility industrial commercial and even banking con cerns wherever inducements are at tractive mr vanderlip has had in his mind some such organization ever since the war opened the way to the united states to become a world power finanpially it was mr vanderlip who took the lead in establishing branch american banks in latin america as soon as the new federal reserve law allowed this innovation otto kahn a director latterly the national city bank secured control of the international banking corporation which has its headquarters in new york but which operates some fifteen branches in china russia asia and europe prominently identified with mr vanderlip in the american interna tional company is otto kahn of kuhn loeb & co mr kuhn is a di rector of the new company and will also it is understood be a member of the finance committee upon whose shoulders will fall the principal work of developing the enterprise mr kahn has had practical banking ex perience abroad and is recognized as among the ablest railroad financiers in this country willard d straight went to the east several weeks ago on behalf of j p morgan & co and there gained valuable first-hand knowledge mr straight has taken an active part in drawing up plans for the interna tional company although mr straight is now engaged in the study of international law it ls expected he will be identified with the new move ment when he lias finished his study lt is believed he will find an outlet for his talents in this field j p morgan returns official announcement has awaited the return to duty of j p morgan details will be given out to-morrow afternoon mr morgan i am in a position to state has been in a more serious con dition than publicly known until to kaiser's peace plan doomed to failure says clemenceau german emperor will offer settlement under threat of holy war when he reaches constantinople belief by geokges clemenceau former premier of france paris nov 22 â€” when the kaiser reaches constantinople he will propose peace terms b*ut it is important to note he will not try to impose them he will halt midway between riga and bagdad to say to france england russia italy and belgium not this is what i want but will those terms suit you back of this is the shadow of a threat of a holy war which from the eastern minarets the kaiser will declare summoning all islam to march against france and england our reply to the kaiser will be : / no v/e don't want your peace terms we shall never ac cept them we do not even want to know what your propositions i are what we want is right dignified independence and liberty j for all peoples â€” things which you do not understand all we have in view is the smashing of your monstrous dream | of humanity bleeding from the brutal imbecility of a race capable of learning everything that can be learned : yet incapable of doing aught but spread death and degradation you are threatening a war of extermination if your proposals are rejected we are not afraid you have already reached the utmost limits of barbarity you cannot harm us more than you have already done your people are beginning to feel that despite appearances ! we have this decisive superiority over you â€” that v/e can endure j indefinitely we shall continue till we break your resistance be cause something within us tells us we shall get you in the end yesterday a soldier wrote me from the trenches we are beginning to suffer the effects of winter but don't mind because we feel we shall never give way that's the best reply we can make to the kaiser's peace pro posals mothers will pray for peace jane addams to sign telegrams initiating move for which mrs ford gives 10,000 by international news service new york nov 22 ten thou sand telegrams will be sent to-mor row by the woman's peace party in initiating a mothers movement for a conference of neutral nations each telegram will be signed by jane ad dams the messages will be sent to women's organizations throughout the united states the expense is to be borne by mrs henry ford who has given 510,000 for the work each telegram will ask the recipi ent to send a telegram to president wilson asking him to call a confer ence of neutral nations for the set tlement of the present war check is in new york miss rebecca shelley a graduate of ann arbor arrived in new york to-night with mrs ford's check she turned it over to the treasurer of the woman's peace party one hundred members of the party will assist in sending out the telegrams mrs ford asks the women of the united states to devote an hour next friday to a prayer for peace in eu rope the day will be known as mothers peace day and is planned as the first of a series this is the first time mrs ford has shown in any concrete way an interest in the peace movement re cently she heard rosika schwimmer make a speech on peace and she says that inspired the gift speaks as happy mother in presenting the money she wrote happy in my own motherhood and sympathizing with the bitter sorrow of the mothers bereaved by war i want to foster a demonstration en abling american women to go on rec ord as favoring a conference of neu tral nations working toward a just settlement of the great european tragedy miss addams immediately after re ceiving the gift for the society called together her committees and to-mor row the party will begin its active campaign to interest mothers in the peace movement president wilson has made an ap pointment to receive at the white house on friday afternoon mrs philip snowden of england wife of the member of parliament and mme schwimrier with henry ford of de troit sees fiancee and rival elope illinoisan buying tickets for wedding trip deserted at depot in auto flight by international news service kewanee 111 nov 22 1f any body wants a railroad ticket from here to mathersville why peter con rads has one to spare he bought two to-day one was for miss eleza beth bentham belle of this town who was scheduled to become mrs conrads without further delay but something happened it was a limousine conrads is rich all right â€” one of the richest men in mathersville and when he selected the kewanee beauty to be his bride both towns were so proud that nobody could say which was the proudest and yet to-night there is a whisper that elizabeth was influenced more by her loving par ents than by her own little heart in accepting conrads so the limousine appeared at the station and just as peter was buying the two tickets first class a daring young man r w fairbanks stepped up close and whispered in eliza beth's ear she giggled then a wild light came into her eyes and she whispered back all right she got into the limousine then so did fairbanks and at this late hour no one in kewanee seems to know where elizabeth and fairbanks have gone but peter has an extra ticket and a furnished home saloon bandits get 110 in a night raid two robbers got 169 last night when they held up the saloon of fred grawe 3601 north ashland avenue grawe gave up 110 when confronted by the robbers who aimed revolvers at him the rest was contributed by three patrons welsh minos strike by international news service cardiff wales nov 22 â€” thirty five hundred miners iu the gawr val ley this afternoin notified their em ployers that they v ere going to quit work because the concerns had em ployed nonunion help t^tm in Chicago and elsewhere price ojne cext suburbs twookhtsnj greece bulgaria are near alliance martial law practically m force in athens war zone in greek water expected to follow en forcement of new blockade greek government press shows disdain of allies new pro posals likely to be rejected open break is expected soon â– â– â– â€” london nov 23 one of germany's newest dread naughts struck a mine in the baltic last friday and sank according to a rotterdam dispatch to the daily mail thirty-three members of the crew were drowned by international news service rome nov 22 the correspond ent of the idea nationale ot athens wiring from messina says that the rigid censorship estab lished by the greek government pre vents the correspondent of papers published in the countries of tho a lies from giving any concrete idea of the situation athens he states is practically un der martial law the royal palace is heavily guarded and the public squares and the streets are patrolled day and night the correspondent graeco turkish alliance hinted , signs are increasing that the al i liance between bulgaria and greece is an accomplished fact turkish delegates are now nago | tiating a greek-turkish alliance large quantities of bulgarian ] wheat are now arriving iu greece the language employed toward the allies by the government press daily grows more disdainful espe cially is this the case with reference to england the correspondent concludes by saying that there is increased actlv ity at the german and ottoman le gations which warrants tho belie that greece is bordering on a diplo matic rupture â€” and perhaps war â€” with the allies allies army ls in serious position special cable to the Chicago examiner sad london dally telegraph saloniki nov 22 the declare tion by the british legation at athens of coercive measures against greece is creating a critical situation denys cochin of the french cabi net who had arranged to leave to night for the front is returning to british and french military and naval officials declare the situation of the allied army considered from an elementary strategical viewpoint cannot longer be tolerated with its base in the air it is exposed to dan gers no general would care to face one naval official said our army is in the position of a hostage a greek official when asked what the greeks would do in the event ol j a retreat by the allied army into greek territory said greece to allow passage to germans we will allow the germane to ea ter the greek army standing to one side this official would not admit tha possibility of the greeks attacking or disarming the allies nevertheless the mobilization ot i the greek armv continues new i troops are being constantly sent to i the frontier london nov 22 a dispatch to j the central news from athens says that premier brland of france haa ' telegraphed to miniate cochin eaj continued en 4tivpage jd cotan4 continued on 4th pacwjth column s just a reminder | h"1 more shopping days l i before christmas shop early 1 the fringes of the fleet a poem and a story by rudyard kipling will be printed in the tomorrow i v fecund oi a series of six articles from the pen of england's greatest writer in which he will describe the tremendous activity of the british fleet r final [\ f editions

Chicago examiner Chicago november 23 1915 vol xiii xo 288 a m tuesday kegi stored u b patent office p.d o'brien suspended slush fund is charged detective chief accused of col lecting money to defend hal pin and walter o'brien po licemen said to have testified hoyne's evidence results in civil service commission taking drastic action healey forced to give order after long delay c aix p d o'brien chief live was suspended night by chief of police tlie request of the civil l ommission following the iÂ»j;ird investigation into the ion of a slusu fund for the men indicted in counec â€¢ graft inquiry us announced that charges will be filed against captain o'brien becsjdse of his activities in the col lecflon of this fund among members ofahe police department these accusations wil be based upon the my of scores of policemen â€¢Â» ho appeared before the commission iarlier m tfie'oay'anirf'jid of their contributions to the fund raised to help former captain john j halpin of the detective bureau now on trial charged with grafting and detective sergeant walter o'brien already eonvicted for operating with the clairvoyant trust uncle of walter o'brien convicted as grafter captain o'brien is an uncle of the convicted policeman and has admit ted that he contributed several hun dred dollars toward his nephew's iufense but denied that he had been jasurer of the fund captain o'brien's suspension was onsidered a big victory for state's attorney maclay hoyne who had gathered a mass of evidence con erning the fund heretofore he had been unsuccessful in his de mands upon chief healey that the lead of the detective bureau be ousted the prosecutor was prepar ing to present this evidence to the grand jury when joseph p geary of the merit board requested that the jata be turned over to him the com missioner assuring mr hoyne that irastic action would follow board is unanimous in suspension order during the morning commissioner eary conferred with state's attor ney hoyne as to the manner in which the investigation would be ield mr hoyne suggested that the commission hold executive sessions for the time being and this was agreed to by other members of the merit board after the first execu tive session the commissioners were unanimous in asking for the sus pension of captain o'brien after the meeting captain percy b coffin president of the commis sion made public the following statement as a result of the investigation conducted to-day in the matter of the collection of funds for the de fense of captain john j halpin and detective sergeant walter j o'brien ihe fact that such collections were made in the department was con clusively shown healey is requested to order suspension the commission therefore has requested of general superintendent of police charles c healey the sus pension of captaih p d o'brien alio participated therein pending eaarges captain o'brien v as placed in â€¢ oarge of the detective bureau short ly after chief healey was appointed head of the department captain o'br/ien admitted last night -â€” / unlighted cigar fails as a sleep conserver mack late for court joker removes lighted torch that usually awakens law yer at loop l station louis mack of the law firm of scott bancroft & stephens is a gen ius â€” and that is why he missed e.n appointment in court yesterday mr mack's latest invention is a sleep cor server he works so late at night and rises eo early in the morning that he needs a sleep con server his scheme is to take a nap on the l train on the way down town and in order to wake u.i at the right moment he lights a cigar which is timed to burn his fingers between Chicago avenue and ran dolph street at the touch of fire he rises and leaves the train but â€” a joke was plaj-ed on mr mack yesterday while he slept a friend gently relieved him of his cigar sub stituting an unlighted one he woke up at fifty-fifth street italian millionaire blocks deportation bv international news service washington nov 22 â€” professor elia volpi of italy a millionaire and friend of the late j p morgan will not be deported with ills secretary miss lisetta morosino as ordered by thj immigration board the depart ment of labor to-day sustained an apueu.l by professor volpi ti'.e board had ordered the couple excluded be cause miss morosino failed to show she was capable of performing the duties of a secretary hawaii's queen sends gift to mrs gait honqltjluj nov 22 â€” ex-queen llliuokalani the surviving 7nler of hawaii's days of royalty has for warded as her wedding gift to mrs norman gait the fiancee of president ... a ohlffon scarf of peculiar tÂ»xture and design the scarf which was sent in the name of the daugh ters of hawaii is a rare example of ancient hawaiian weaving grace wilbur trout suffrage candidate new york nov 22 â€” a fight be tween the east and west for presi dency of the national woman's suf frage association was predicted to day following the resignation of dr anna howard shaw mrs grace wil bur trout of Chicago and mrs carrie chapman catt of new york may be candidates for the office lind faces suit by henry lane wilson in international news service washington nov 22 â€” henry lane wilson former ambassador to mexico said to-night before leaving for indianapolis that he would take legal action against john lind if the latter confirmed his statements that wilson had foreknowledge of the plan to assassinate madero needle causes death of girl student bi international news service lafayette ind nov 22 â€” phy sicians to-day reached the opinion that miss bernaldine jlennetta sur face a purdue student who died a few days ago was a victim of septicaemia while working in the laboratory at purdue she opened a pimple on her face with a needle which she had been using in her work with plants claque for opera stirs sang bis mine melba exposes promoter of hired applause other stars admit they were approached management admits complaints singers indignantly deny that they engaged men to applaud claque â€¢ noun >â€” a body of men hired as applanders in a theater hence any set of persons concerting to praise or npplnnd from interested motives â€” definition from the new standard dictionary this ls the thing or system which has invaded the precincts of the chi cago grand opera company under the leadership of a chef de claque several singers have already teen victimized since the opening of the opera season who is fathering or mothering this claque has remained a mystery all preliminaries are conducted over the telephone until some one is found willing to pay a fee said to range from 50 to 150 when more definite negotiations take place melba exposes scheme but when the claque leader at tempted to negotiate with mme nellie melba he reckoned without his host his methods were exposed by the australian diva yesterday t had no idea that such a system was in existence in Chicago she said until some man called me up on the evening of my first performance and offered me his services for a con sideration ...... 1 toid him to go about his business and hung up the receiver he did not tell me his name and i have not bothered myself about him since bassi also approached i have been approached several times said amadeo bassi the italian tenor the man never tells his name but says that if his services are wanted he will arrange an ap pointment i have heard that his name is arlock and that he lives at the auditorium hotel i have refused to employ liim but i am afraid other singers have not done the same gossip among mem bers of the company has it that one singer paid the chef de claque 75 and provided him with 200 gallery tickets if there is any one employ ing such methods he ought to be driven from Chicago arlock is indignant nathan arlock of paris was found at the auditorium hotel when told that bassi had connected his name with the claque he made an indig nant denial i have never engaged in that busi ness in my life he said management is informed murmurings of discontent among the opera stars became so loud yes terday that they reached the ears of maestro cleofonte campanini and business manager bernhard ulrich i heard last saturday that a claque leader was working in chi cago manager ulrich said it is the first time in the history of opera in Chicago that such a complaint has been made during the matinee saturday i received a protest from the occupants of a box against the unreasonable applause in a certain part of the house every time i at tempted to make an investigation it ceased campanini denied the existence of a professional claque leader for twenty years i have heard the same stories but they can never be proven said mr campanini tuesday woman eight months proving she swallowed a dinner knife x-ray shows instrument in stomach after doctors doubted her story eight months ago mrs e hochs berger of 1703 north artesian ave nue swallowed an 8-inch dinner knife while delirious from typhoid fever in the county hospital after she had returned to her home cured she remembered the knife swallowing episode and went to sev eral doctors and asked for an opera tion to remove it the doctors scoffed at her story and attributed the lump she had on her side to neu rosis yesterday she found dr george c amerson and dr john pflock at the west side hospital she told them of the knife they took an x-ray picture the pictures revealed the knife securely lodged in the fleshy lining of the stomach this morning at 10 o'clock they will operate to remove it the caÃŸe is unusual if not unpre cedented said dr amerson last night but the operation to remove the knife is not necessarily danger ous _, klein took step to become u s citizen bv international news service bridgeport conn nov 22 â€” klein the playwright who lost his life on the lusitania took out his first naturalization papers in iso9 in this city but never returned for his second ones it was learned to-day naturalization clerk m j flanagan in response to an inquiry by persons interested in the playwright's estate made the investigation klein left some property in new london j widener 50 000.000 and art works to son by international news service morristown pa nov 22 the will of p a b wldener admitted to probate to-day gives the surviv ing son joseph s widener author ity to dispose of the paintings and art works the residuary estate is left to mrs widener's son and his grandchildren it is said to be valued at more than fifty million dollars blanche walsh left only 1,000 estate by international news service riverhead n t nov 22 â€” the estate left by blanche walsh the actress is valued at only 1,000 ac cording to papers filed in the surro gate's court in suffolk county her husband william m travers has been granted letters of administra tion saloons soft drink plea to be up today judge carpenter in the federal court to-day will hear arguments in support of a plea for an injunction to restrain mayor thompson and other municipal authorities from in terfering with the sale of soft drinks and tobacco by saloonkeepers on sun days guard washington's station from bombs by international news service washington nov 22 â€” fearing bomb outrages the capital's magni ficent union station to-day put its entire force on guard in its tunnel connecting the station with south washington the weather at the fair by international news servtcb san francisco nov 22 the weather in san francisco to-day was cloudy and wanner maximum tem perature 66 minimum 52 u s weather forecast for Chicago and vicinity partly cloudy tuesday i wednesday fair becoming unsettled again at night with rising temperature t mod erate variable winds temperature kor twenty-four hours ending at 7 p in : hln-heat 33 lowest 23 mean 29 normal temperature for the day 37 excess of temperature since january 1 529 degrees precipitatioc for twenty-four hours ending at 7 p m o excess oi precipitation since january 1 b*7 in relative humidity 7 a m 72 2 p m 57 7 p in 75 barometric pressure reduced to eea terel 7 a m 30.16 7 p ra 30.01 btmrise trmiay 6:30 sunset to-night 4:23 hvou rises o ti p rn november 23 lviii complete master tutltia as dm it u s money kigs plan conquest of trade by b c forbes gigantic new combination is formed by new york finan ciers to capture world com merce once held by europeans frank vanderlip otto kahn mor gan and rockefellers inter ested financially in venture first capital is 50,000,000 new york nov 2 â€” national city bank kuhn-loeb morgan and rockefeller interests have formed the american international company to finance and control enterprises in all parts of the world the capitalization is expected to be 50,000,00 at the start it will be in creased latfer as demanded by the ac quisition of properties charles a stone of stone & web ster managers of upwards of a score or more of traction and other pub lic utility companies has been chosen to manage the mammoth new bank ing venture frank a vanderlip p:-sk",ert of the katior.al city bank is the oihjrinator of the project its scope is wider than that of any investment organization in the world the nearest approach to the american international corporation is the deutsches bank of berlin which fi nances many industrial ventures to cultivate latin-america the semi-bankruptcy of europe has brought a collapse in the securities of even high grade dividend paying properties in south america and else where hence the american finan cial combination will be able to se cure control of many foreign cor porations on bargain termÃŸ latin-american will be the first field to be cultivated but russia the orient and other quarters of the globe will be tapped in due course canadian enterprises also may be brought in the financiers behind the enter prise propose not only to acquire se curities of existing companies but to establish public utility industrial commercial and even banking con cerns wherever inducements are at tractive mr vanderlip has had in his mind some such organization ever since the war opened the way to the united states to become a world power finanpially it was mr vanderlip who took the lead in establishing branch american banks in latin america as soon as the new federal reserve law allowed this innovation otto kahn a director latterly the national city bank secured control of the international banking corporation which has its headquarters in new york but which operates some fifteen branches in china russia asia and europe prominently identified with mr vanderlip in the american interna tional company is otto kahn of kuhn loeb & co mr kuhn is a di rector of the new company and will also it is understood be a member of the finance committee upon whose shoulders will fall the principal work of developing the enterprise mr kahn has had practical banking ex perience abroad and is recognized as among the ablest railroad financiers in this country willard d straight went to the east several weeks ago on behalf of j p morgan & co and there gained valuable first-hand knowledge mr straight has taken an active part in drawing up plans for the interna tional company although mr straight is now engaged in the study of international law it ls expected he will be identified with the new move ment when he lias finished his study lt is believed he will find an outlet for his talents in this field j p morgan returns official announcement has awaited the return to duty of j p morgan details will be given out to-morrow afternoon mr morgan i am in a position to state has been in a more serious con dition than publicly known until to kaiser's peace plan doomed to failure says clemenceau german emperor will offer settlement under threat of holy war when he reaches constantinople belief by geokges clemenceau former premier of france paris nov 22 â€” when the kaiser reaches constantinople he will propose peace terms b*ut it is important to note he will not try to impose them he will halt midway between riga and bagdad to say to france england russia italy and belgium not this is what i want but will those terms suit you back of this is the shadow of a threat of a holy war which from the eastern minarets the kaiser will declare summoning all islam to march against france and england our reply to the kaiser will be : / no v/e don't want your peace terms we shall never ac cept them we do not even want to know what your propositions i are what we want is right dignified independence and liberty j for all peoples â€” things which you do not understand all we have in view is the smashing of your monstrous dream | of humanity bleeding from the brutal imbecility of a race capable of learning everything that can be learned : yet incapable of doing aught but spread death and degradation you are threatening a war of extermination if your proposals are rejected we are not afraid you have already reached the utmost limits of barbarity you cannot harm us more than you have already done your people are beginning to feel that despite appearances ! we have this decisive superiority over you â€” that v/e can endure j indefinitely we shall continue till we break your resistance be cause something within us tells us we shall get you in the end yesterday a soldier wrote me from the trenches we are beginning to suffer the effects of winter but don't mind because we feel we shall never give way that's the best reply we can make to the kaiser's peace pro posals mothers will pray for peace jane addams to sign telegrams initiating move for which mrs ford gives 10,000 by international news service new york nov 22 ten thou sand telegrams will be sent to-mor row by the woman's peace party in initiating a mothers movement for a conference of neutral nations each telegram will be signed by jane ad dams the messages will be sent to women's organizations throughout the united states the expense is to be borne by mrs henry ford who has given 510,000 for the work each telegram will ask the recipi ent to send a telegram to president wilson asking him to call a confer ence of neutral nations for the set tlement of the present war check is in new york miss rebecca shelley a graduate of ann arbor arrived in new york to-night with mrs ford's check she turned it over to the treasurer of the woman's peace party one hundred members of the party will assist in sending out the telegrams mrs ford asks the women of the united states to devote an hour next friday to a prayer for peace in eu rope the day will be known as mothers peace day and is planned as the first of a series this is the first time mrs ford has shown in any concrete way an interest in the peace movement re cently she heard rosika schwimmer make a speech on peace and she says that inspired the gift speaks as happy mother in presenting the money she wrote happy in my own motherhood and sympathizing with the bitter sorrow of the mothers bereaved by war i want to foster a demonstration en abling american women to go on rec ord as favoring a conference of neu tral nations working toward a just settlement of the great european tragedy miss addams immediately after re ceiving the gift for the society called together her committees and to-mor row the party will begin its active campaign to interest mothers in the peace movement president wilson has made an ap pointment to receive at the white house on friday afternoon mrs philip snowden of england wife of the member of parliament and mme schwimrier with henry ford of de troit sees fiancee and rival elope illinoisan buying tickets for wedding trip deserted at depot in auto flight by international news service kewanee 111 nov 22 1f any body wants a railroad ticket from here to mathersville why peter con rads has one to spare he bought two to-day one was for miss eleza beth bentham belle of this town who was scheduled to become mrs conrads without further delay but something happened it was a limousine conrads is rich all right â€” one of the richest men in mathersville and when he selected the kewanee beauty to be his bride both towns were so proud that nobody could say which was the proudest and yet to-night there is a whisper that elizabeth was influenced more by her loving par ents than by her own little heart in accepting conrads so the limousine appeared at the station and just as peter was buying the two tickets first class a daring young man r w fairbanks stepped up close and whispered in eliza beth's ear she giggled then a wild light came into her eyes and she whispered back all right she got into the limousine then so did fairbanks and at this late hour no one in kewanee seems to know where elizabeth and fairbanks have gone but peter has an extra ticket and a furnished home saloon bandits get 110 in a night raid two robbers got 169 last night when they held up the saloon of fred grawe 3601 north ashland avenue grawe gave up 110 when confronted by the robbers who aimed revolvers at him the rest was contributed by three patrons welsh minos strike by international news service cardiff wales nov 22 â€” thirty five hundred miners iu the gawr val ley this afternoin notified their em ployers that they v ere going to quit work because the concerns had em ployed nonunion help t^tm in Chicago and elsewhere price ojne cext suburbs twookhtsnj greece bulgaria are near alliance martial law practically m force in athens war zone in greek water expected to follow en forcement of new blockade greek government press shows disdain of allies new pro posals likely to be rejected open break is expected soon â– â– â– â€” london nov 23 one of germany's newest dread naughts struck a mine in the baltic last friday and sank according to a rotterdam dispatch to the daily mail thirty-three members of the crew were drowned by international news service rome nov 22 the correspond ent of the idea nationale ot athens wiring from messina says that the rigid censorship estab lished by the greek government pre vents the correspondent of papers published in the countries of tho a lies from giving any concrete idea of the situation athens he states is practically un der martial law the royal palace is heavily guarded and the public squares and the streets are patrolled day and night the correspondent graeco turkish alliance hinted , signs are increasing that the al i liance between bulgaria and greece is an accomplished fact turkish delegates are now nago | tiating a greek-turkish alliance large quantities of bulgarian ] wheat are now arriving iu greece the language employed toward the allies by the government press daily grows more disdainful espe cially is this the case with reference to england the correspondent concludes by saying that there is increased actlv ity at the german and ottoman le gations which warrants tho belie that greece is bordering on a diplo matic rupture â€” and perhaps war â€” with the allies allies army ls in serious position special cable to the Chicago examiner sad london dally telegraph saloniki nov 22 the declare tion by the british legation at athens of coercive measures against greece is creating a critical situation denys cochin of the french cabi net who had arranged to leave to night for the front is returning to british and french military and naval officials declare the situation of the allied army considered from an elementary strategical viewpoint cannot longer be tolerated with its base in the air it is exposed to dan gers no general would care to face one naval official said our army is in the position of a hostage a greek official when asked what the greeks would do in the event ol j a retreat by the allied army into greek territory said greece to allow passage to germans we will allow the germane to ea ter the greek army standing to one side this official would not admit tha possibility of the greeks attacking or disarming the allies nevertheless the mobilization ot i the greek armv continues new i troops are being constantly sent to i the frontier london nov 22 a dispatch to j the central news from athens says that premier brland of france haa ' telegraphed to miniate cochin eaj continued en 4tivpage jd cotan4 continued on 4th pacwjth column s just a reminder | h"1 more shopping days l i before christmas shop early 1 the fringes of the fleet a poem and a story by rudyard kipling will be printed in the tomorrow i v fecund oi a series of six articles from the pen of england's greatest writer in which he will describe the tremendous activity of the british fleet r final [\ f editions